Afghanistan isn't safer than Chicago

President Donald Trump ripped Chicago as a hellscape of violence that makes Afghanistan, one of the world's deadliest countries for terrorism, seem like a tranquil and secure place.

It's not true. More people died by violent means in Afghanistan in one month than died from murders in Chicago in a year.

The US president has long sought to hold up America's third-largest city as the poster child of urban violence and dysfunctional Democratic politics, even when his assertions don't square with the facts. He's called it a war zone in the past.

A look at his claim Monday during a gathering of police chiefs in Chicago: TRUMP, on murders in Chicago in recent years: "It's embarrassing to us as a nation. All over the world, they're talking about Chicago. Afghanistan is a safe place by comparison." THE